123-Reg Web Hosting Comparison
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Rather than spend hours comparing UK Web Hosts we have done it for you! Weycrest Web Hosting Packages are very competitive and more fully featured compared to 123-Reg Hosting. Instructions for transfering your website at 123-REG to Weycrest can be found below.
This can mean either a complete transfer of your domain name by changing the IPS TAG (in the case of UK domain names) or simply updating your nameservers at 123-REG so your domain can use our hosting servers, yet you still have full control over all domain control aspects at 123-REG (this might be handy if you have a lot of domains and want them all in one place).
Details accurate as at 23 April 2008.
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Package Details |
123-Reg Starter |
123-Reg Starter+ |
123-Reg StarterPro |
Weycrest Personal |
| Disc Space | 100MB |
250MB |
500MB |
1000MB |
| Monthly Traffic | 1500MB |
3000MB |
5000MB |
5000MB |
| Pop Boxes | 15 |
25 |
35 |
20 |
| Mail Auto Responders | No |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Virus and Spam Filtering | Spam Only |
Spam Only |
Spam Only |
Yes |
| Perl/CGI | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| PHP | No |
No |
No |
Yes |
| MySQL Database | No |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Joomla! Compatible | No |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Wordpress Compatible | No |
No |
No |
Yes |
| phpBB Compatible | No |
No |
No |
Yes |
| osCommerce Compatible | No |
No |
No |
Yes |
| FTP Access | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| IMAP Accounts | No |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Authenticated SMTP | No |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Webmail | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Webalizer Stats | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Awstats Stats | No |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Online File Manager | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| FAQ's & Tutorials | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Plesk Control Panel | No |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Web Tools & Free Scripts | No |
No |
No |
30+ |
| London UK Hosted | Maybe |
Maybe |
Maybe |
Yes |
| Carbon Neutral Data Centre | no |
no |
yes |
yes |
| Annual Price | £19.08** |
£35.88** |
£47.88** |
£14.99 |
Notes
All Prices Exclude UK VAT at 17.5%. 123-Reg Pricing based on Annual Payments. 123-Reg apply additional an £9.99 Setup fee to Monthly Payments.
Transferring to Website from 123-Reg to Weycrest Servers
Here is the relevant information you need to transfer your website or domain from 123-Reg to work with Weycrest Servers.
Many people are concerned when transferring domain names, the process can be really simple. In the case below we carry out what is known as a "partial transfer" from 123-REG. With this method administrative control (billing etc) for the domain name remains with 123-REG but the nameservers are updated so your domain management remains with 123-Reg, you but your domain name points to your hosting plan with Weycrest.
An example of some eUKhost nameservers are as follows:
ns15.weycrest.net
ns16.weycrest.net
The correct Weycrest Nameservers will be provided in the Welcome email provided when you signed up for us.
Nameserver Change at 123-REG Instructions
- 1). Login into the 123-REG Control Panel
- 2). Select your domain from the drop down list
- 3). Select "Change Nameservers" under the "Currently Managing" menu
- 4). In the next screen enter the nameservers provided in the Weycrest Setup email into the boxes for "Nameserver 1" and "Nameserver 2"
- 5). Click "Change Nameservers"
Please note that DNS updates are not instantaneous and you should allow at least 24 hours for your site to resolve to Weycrest Hosting.
Transferring your website from 123-Reg
Transferring your website from 123-Reg is really simple!
- 1). Login to the FTP account on your 123-Reg hosting account using your FTP Client (Cute FTP, Filezilla, SmartFTP etc
- 2). Select the files you wish to transfer
- 3). Drag the files onto an appropriate folder onto your computer
- 4). Login to you Weycrest Plesk or Cpanel FTP account (These details provided to you upon signup)
- 5). Drag or copy the files from your computer to either the httpdocs folder (Plesk Hosting) or the public_html folder (CPanel). Alternatively you can use the online file manager in the control panel
Please note its not possible to transfer a 123-Reg "Instant Site" at the current time. Any websites created this way would have to be recreated using our own "Sitebuilder service.
